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Announcing the Stack Exchange Time Machine
Although the page footer saying
Best viewed in Netscape 3.0
StackExchange websites can't really be opened by Netscape 3 due to unsupported algorithms for TLS.
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I find your lack of <blink> tags </blink> disturbing.
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Will there be an option to permanently keep this year's April Fools design active?
I made a userscript to keep this amazing theme all the time.
Get it on Stack Apps: 2019 April Fool's Day Retro Theme, or below:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Stack Exchange 90's theme
// @...
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Is my SO Coffee Mug defective?
You forgot to hook up dependency injection correctly.
You need one of these:
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Announcing the Stack Exchange Time Machine
Had Stack Exchange (and all the supporting infrastructure) been around in 1998, the 'Y2K bug' would have been a flash in the pan.
Q: Why does my system crash?
Response: Question closed for lack of ...
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I have only one thing to say: KEEP THE GUESTBOOK!
I mean, who wouldn't want to tell the world "OMG HAHAHA"?
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I love this - the only thing I'm really surprised at is the seeming omission of the visitor counter.
How are we to know how many 1337 h4xx0rs have visited each page???
But this is great - reminds me ...
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Just tried it on my i486DX with dial-up and Mosaic-browser and it looks as expected. The only downside was that I had to wait for 27 minutes for the page to load.. ;)
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Stack Exchange has been taken over by a rubber duck!
It is not exactly a feature but is a merely a legend (I don't have a better word). They basically want you to listen to your self twice and they believe that you will have your answer sometimes in the ...
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This is great! But I'm having trouble with one thing -- your frames aren't adjustable! I tried and tried and I couldn't get the controls to pop up over the division between the left and right frames....
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First of all, you need two versions of this page:
"Under Construction" should be a link leading to an empty page with the following information:
Also, each page must have this gadget with as many ...
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Is my SO Coffee Mug defective?
Classic beginner mistake. The code hasn't been run. So, hold the mug and run ... perhaps to the pantry, where the coffee is.
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Is my SO Coffee Mug defective?
Your computer checked Wikipedia and XKCD and discovered that "half full" and "half empty" mean the same thing. Now if
0.5*full = 0.5*empty
then
full = empty
So your code made the cup empty, on the ...
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Does not work on Netscape Navigator 3.0
OP must not have had Internet connection or incorrectly setup Windows 95, as the site is reachable, but Netscape uses SSLv2, which is way beyond deprecated.
In the background of the error message ...
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How do I disable Quack Overflow? ("I hate this duck" button is only temporary)
How to send the duck away
While I don't know why you would like to remove the helpful ducky, here are the necessary steps.
Tell the duck 'goodbye'
You have to both "hate this duck" and say goodbye ...
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Should we prank not-logged-in users?
I was about to raise the same issue. Our April Fool's jokes are aimed at insiders. The vast majority of our users come from Google and aren't logged in. These are people who are looking for an ...
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It STILL does NOT run with 640K memory!!
You need to free more conventional memory!!!
*****^^^^^^^+++++++______+++++^^^^^^^******
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Play Unikong Forever
Found from this SO Meta answer, you can play it from here:
https://unikong.github.io/
And it runs super silky smooth no lag no nothing, just as we played on that day!
Update: Found the official ...
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Quack Overflow listens even when I say I have no microphone
If you looked closely, you will note that it uses "the magic of the internet" if you tell it that you don't have a microphone.
Here's a screenshot:
That's right. Quack Overflow is so powerful, it ...
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Announcing the Stack Exchange Time Machine
I've been seeing the unicorn like this the whole time:
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How to disable "time travel" entirely?
Going back to the future sets a cookie named tm2019. Unfortunately it sets it only for a particular question path, but using the browser devtools you can change the path to / that causes it to effect ...
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"//Todo: Remove after April Fools 2023 is done"
The shame 😳
We have some local tooling in the footer that hid this really obvious mistake during our testing. That's right, we've bamboozled ourselves!
Sorry about that, a fix is out now. Thank you ...
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How do I reenable Quack Overflow if I disabled it?
Check your cookies
The duck saves a quack in your cookies. Open your browser's cookie collection and remove the quack cookie for the site where you want to re-enable Quack Overflow.
For example in ...
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Beautiful tribute to the internet's 30th birthday.
Loved the comic sans.
The team at StackOverflow knows what's up. Proud of you :) :) :)
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What testing is done on 'April Fool' pranks?
We began brainstorming ideas for April 1 early in February. (The first version of the brainstorming document was written on February 20, but we had informal discussions when we started March planning.)...
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Should we prank not-logged-in users?
having viewed thousands of stack* pages over recent years, this gag was the cake. finally went through the wibble of checking how this login system worked these days and signed up. just to say, ...
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I think I've disabled this about a dozen times now, and I expect at least a few more today :|.
That is: both of the computers I use, each of my browser profiles on both of those computers, as well as ...
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Is my SO Coffee Mug defective?
Assuming your coffee mug isn't playing an April Fools joke on you . . .
This appears to count as undefined behavior. An official source states that (boldface mine)
While no incidents have been ...
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